What did you see today?
My best friend, Jemima and I were witnesses to a crime today. It was domestic violence.
She and I had gone out for my belated birthday lunch and movie. Jemima took me back to my car in the Lowe's parking lot. We sat and talked for awhile. I looked up and said" Jemima look that car door is open". Then we saw a foot dragging the ground and soon more of the leg, we thought she was going to fall out and be run over. The car pulled up near the garden shop and the womans' legs were on the ground like she was kneeling. Jemima and I thought that he must have had her by the hair. He let go and started to get out, she ran towards the garden shop but he caught her and dragged her back to the car. By this time we could hear her screaming. A man walked closer and said something to them, then he walked away. I called 911 and as I was talking to them the car left the parking lot and crossed a main thoroughfare into a Walmart parking lot. All of this occured in less than 10 minuets. I was not the only one that had called 911. The police took my info and told us to wait until I got a call back. After about 30 minuets a police officer called and said they found them in the other lot. We do not know if the man was arrested or not. It was very disturbing to watch. I just pray that nothing worse happens to her and that she is able to get some real help.
Wow...I hope the lady is ok!
ReplyDeleteUgh, I'm sure that was hard to watch, but good for you for calling the police.
ReplyDeleteI can't believe how some people, here in the good ole USA and abroad, have to live. When I think about money being tight so I can't have a new spinning wheel yet or I'm sick of my dirty house and then I hear stories like you just told or the one where the family of three boys has lost two of the boys in the last three years in Irag. Well, it kinda puts things into perspective doesn't it? Hopefully, the woman will take actions to get out of that situation. Hopefully the man will be out of commission for a while as well. You certainly did a good and very brave thing.
ReplyDeleteomg -- how horrible! I am so glad you called -- hopefully, the polie will tell her how many people did, and that she really isn't alone. saying some prayers tonight for you all. sleep well, Sonya.
ReplyDeleteisn't it sad that you were the only ones to really do anything? She was lucky that you were there.
ReplyDeleteLet's hope she works up the spit to dump the chump.
Hugs, chickee!
Oh, that's horrible. At least there were a lot of people concerned enough to call 911 -- gotta say that's one good thing about the proliferation of cell phones. I saw something like this once and when my (male) friend tried to intervene before the cops arrived, the man told him, "It's okay, it's my wife." Um, not okay, not ever.
ReplyDeleteThat's horrible! I can't fathom what causes people to be so horrible.
ReplyDeleteWow I hope the woman is okay. Thanks for the comment on my blog. Megan and Lily are both cuties. I read Marley and Me aalso and still cry about it.
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ReplyDeleteSonya. You are the best. I am so glad you made that call. I have a close friend I grew up with whose paranoid schizophrenic husband used to regularly beat her, and I, at 3000 miles away, was the only person she would tell about it. She told me back then that nobody ever asked her about her bruises, nobody ever did anything that would give her the courage to stand up for herself--till the day the guy was jailed for trying to kill her. Till there were doctors and cops and courts involved.
ReplyDeleteThank you thank you thank you for being appalled and DOING something about it! You might not see it making a difference to this stranger, but having someone stick up for her, even someone she'll never see again--maybe especially someone she may never see again--will help in ways you will probably never know.
And I, for one, having lived through that whole scenario vicariously, having begged my friend to accept my offer of a plane ticket anytime immediately 24/7, am extremely grateful to you. While saying a prayer for the woman you saw. And the man--because Heaven knows just how much he needs it!
Thank goodness there are people like you in the world Sonya!
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